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I don't know a thing about website development. Is it hard? I'm not serious about learning it, I'm just curious. How much do you have to pay to keep your site up? Can you host a website from your own PC without paying some big company to do it?

 

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You can design a website without code if you use a site like Wix, you can either use the free URL they provide or buy your own.

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30 minutes ago, TrainFan2019 said:

I don't know a thing about website development. Is it hard? I'm not serious about learning it, I'm just curious. How much do you have to pay to keep your site up? Can you host a website from your own PC without paying some big company to do it?

 

if you want a basic website for information that's east to use : 
Squarespace (wix is meh tbh).

I you want a blog : Wordpress (tho it's gonna be a bit more annoying to setup, you might have to hire someone to do it for you) (500$ ish + 100$/year)

If you want any level of backend stuff (databases, php etc..) : Hire someone. typically 1000$+ / website + 100$ish/year to keep running (hosting only)

Making websites is really easy when static (as in, the content does not change, so think like http://linusmediagroup.com)

Dynamic websites (Say, the forum, facebook, twitter, reddit) have a lot of back-end programming that fetches the information required to show in the page (posts, comments etc..)
Those require a lot more time and money.

It really depends on what features you need.


For simple pages, you need a index.html (default page name) 
the base code looks like this : 
  

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

Where <head> is not something shown to the user (except the title which is the text on top of the page) it's where you'd insert other linked items (fonts, scripts, CSS files)

  

<H(1,2,3,4,5,6)> is for titles, the smaller, the lesser the title is (think of them as subtitles)
<p> is for paragraphs 
<a> is for links
<img src="smiley.gif" alt="Smiley face" height="42" width="42"> is for images

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Overall, website design isn't super hard.

 

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On 9/20/2019 at 6:37 PM, TrainFan2019 said:

How much do you have to pay to keep your site up? Can you host a website from your own PC without paying some big company to do it?

  • You can host your website via dozens of providers - you might pay 5 bugs/month for a domain and a little webspace.
    • If you want a WordPress blog, it's free, you only have to pay for hosting (many hosters even provide a one-click-WP-installation).
    • If you want a sweet WordPress theme, you will have initial costs of of - it depends - 20 to a few hundred $ and you might wanna customize it. That's all possible with a few clicks, no web-"coding" needed.
  • You want a simple, but custom design? You'll have to pay at least a designer and and a web-developer. This might cost a few thousand $.
  • If your webpage needs to meet more complex requirements - and not only a frontend (what a user actually sees on a webpage) but also a backend, where you have a content management or even a shop management system, costs might get up to 1 or 2 million $ + ongoing costs for license fees and maintenance.

There are so many aspects - risk, efficiency, complexity, quality of the development team, region... you can't tell just by the looks of a page what it might have cost without any further insight. But I guess that's a reasonable range you will deal with.

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6 hours ago, Alchibiades said:

...you might pay 5 bugs/month for a domain...

 

What is 5 bugs in USD?

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About second part of OP question - is possible to host own website on home computer, but it's not worth to do it - you need fast internet connection and computer that is power on 24/7. And good router that can handle multiple connections without any problem. External hosting is not that expensive - sometimes you can find paid hosting for about 5 or 10$ per year. All depends on your needs.

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